James 2:6

Partiality Forbidden

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him? ⁶ But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich exploit you, and they themselves drag you into courts? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme the good name that was called upon you?

Dishonored the Poor Man

Despised The Poor

1 Corinthians 11:22

For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

Psalm 14:6

Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor because LORD is his refuge.

Acts 8:3

But Saul was ravaging the church, entering from house to house. Dragging both men and women, he gave them over to prison.

Acts 17:6

And not having found them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the city rulers, shouting, The men who have agitated the world, these are present here also,

Acts 18:12

But Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord attacked Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

James 5:6

Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

1 Kings 21:11-13

And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.

Job 20:19

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Psalm 10:2

In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

Psalm 10:8

He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man.

Psalm 10:10

He crouches, he bows down, and helpless men fall by his strong men.

Psalm 10:14

Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits [himself] to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 12:5

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

Proverbs 17:5

He who mocks a poor man reproaches his maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 22:16

He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For [a man] higher than the high is observing, and there are higher [men] than they.

Ecclesiastes 9:15-16

Now there was found in it a poor wise man. And he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Isaiah 3:14-15

LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the rulers of it. It is ye who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of a poor man is in your houses.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as him from whom men hide their face he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Amos 2:6-7

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes--

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 5:11

Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Micah 6:11-12

Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Habakkuk 3:14

Thou pierced with his own staves the head of his warriors. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor man secretly.

Zechariah 7:10

And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

Acts 4:1-3

And as they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees approached them,

Acts 4:26-28

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Acts 5:17-18

But after rising up, the high priest and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees) were filled of envy.

Acts 5:26-27

Then after departing, the captain with the subordinates brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they would be stoned.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the religious women, and the prominent women, and the principle men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their boundaries.

Acts 16:19-20

But when her masters saw that the hope of their business was gone, having seized Paul and Silas, they dragged them into the marketplace to the rulers.

James 2:3

and ye have regard for the man wearing the bright clothing, and say to him, Sit thou here well, and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit here below my footstool,

James 5:4

Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.

John 8:49

Jesus answered, I have no demon, but I honor my Father, and ye dishonor me.